Simon Lehna Singh, MBE is a British author who has specialised in writing about mathematical and scientific topics in an accessible manner. He is the maiden winner of the Lilavati Award.
His written works include Fermat's Last Theorem (in the United States titled Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem), The Code Book (about cryptography and its history), Big Bang (about the Big Bang theory and the origins of the universe) and Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial (about complementary and alternative medicine).
He has also produced documentaries and works for television to accompany his books, is a trustee of NESTA, the National Museum of Science and Industry and co-founded the Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme.
发表于2024-11-22
Fermat's Enigma 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
Part.I 1958年,在一本名为《与魔王的交易》的书中收录了这样一个故事:魔王请一个家伙提出一个问题,如果魔王在24小时内回答出来了魔王就会带走这个人的灵魂,如果没有魔王就支付给这个人10万美元。 这个人问道:费马大定理是不是正确的? 魔王离开了,并在迅速吸收了世界上一...
评分皮埃尔•德•费马无疑是数学史中最令人着迷的家伙之一。他出生在十七世纪法国一个商人家庭,仕途一帆风顺,以至于有资格使用“DE”这个具有贵族姓氏的前缀。费马是个富二代,但他所有的业余时间都用在数学上了。才华横溢的他被《业余大数学家的数学》一书的作者排除在外,...
评分那天,当当的送货员将我订的一堆书送来,老公问一本叫《费马大定理》的书是什么,我说是一本数学书时,他和儿子一起嘲笑我:就你?看数学书? 就算人家的数学学得非常糟糕,当年考大学都不曾考及格,也不应该打击人家一大把年纪还上进的积极性不是?何况,这的确是一本非常棒...
评分http://towerjoo.github.io/blog/2014/05/10/fermat-last-theorem/ 作为一个理工狗,对于数学的基础意义还是深有体会的,于是也就不会承认自己不喜欢数学,似乎一个明显的 例子是:哥也经常读数学的著作(虽不是专著),例如刚刚读完的《费马大定理》,还有书架上蒙灰的《数学...
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xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution
"I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."
With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet to future generations.What came to be known as Fermat's Last Theorem looked simple; proving it, however, became the Holy Grail of mathematics, baffling its finest minds for more than 350 years.In Fermat's Enigma --based on the author's award-winning documentary film, which aired on PBS's "Nova"--Simon Singh tells the astonishingly entertaining story of the pursuit of that grail, and the lives that were devoted to, sacrificed for, and saved by it.Here is a mesmerizing tale of heartbreak and mastery that will forever change your feelings about mathematics.
虽然最后也没懂是怎么证出来的,还是为数学史感动,作者也很会诠释数学道理,特别充满生命力的文字
评分从毕达哥拉斯到 Fermat 到 Andrew Wiles, 从两千年前到现在, 最后公布结果还一番波折, 公众的关注很多时候是探索乐趣的阻碍
评分via Tianfang 7年时间独自完成一个炼金术般的数学证明,之后被发现漏洞在羞耻与压力之下又花了1年时间修补了证明。看完只陷入了深深的自我反省,自己有没有为任何一件事这么勇敢这么专注过...
评分第一遍读完的是在读master的那两年,那时候离早些年参加各种奥数比赛的日子还不远,还能完整地熟练地运用费马小定理。现在再看的时候几乎已经很难想起完整的费小定理了,也有了完全不同的阅读体会和思路。
评分via Tianfang 7年时间独自完成一个炼金术般的数学证明,之后被发现漏洞在羞耻与压力之下又花了1年时间修补了证明。看完只陷入了深深的自我反省,自己有没有为任何一件事这么勇敢这么专注过...
Fermat's Enigma 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书